2007

Events

• January 3 - Dennis Hastert steps down as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
• March 24 - The United Socialist Party of Venezuela is founded by President Hugo Chávez.
• April 1 - End of the Central African Republic Bush War.
• April 13 - Tomorrow's Pioneers begins broadcasting.
• April 16 – South Korean student Seung-Hui Cho kills 32 people and wounds 17 others before committing suicide in a shooting at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
• May 3 – Madeleine McCann is kidnapped by Christian B from 5A Rua Dr Agostinho da Silva in Praia da Luz, Portugal while she was sleeping.
• May 16 - Nicolas Sarkozy is elected President of France.
• June 2 - Alexis Flores is placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List.
• June 10 to 15 - The Battle of Gaza: Hamas engages their rivals, the PLO-affiliated Fatah party, in military conflict. Hamas emerges victorious and becomes the de facto governing power of Gaza.
• June 24 - Professional wrestler Chris Benoit kills his wife and 7-year old son before committing suicide. His reasons for doing so are unknown.
• June 25 to July 16 - The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs go on a thrill kill rampage in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, killing 21 people and recording it in a snuff film called 3 Guys, 1 Hammer.
• June 29 - The second round of peace talks between Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army commence in Juba.
• July 23 - 16-year old Daniel Petry tortures, rapes and brutally murders his 12-year old neighbor Gabriel Kuhn in Blumenau, Santa Clarita, Brazil over an minor video game dispute.
• July 24 - 2 year old Riley Ann Sawyers is beaten to death by her mother Kimberly Dawn Trenor and stepfather Royce Clyde Zeigler, Jr.
• August 3 - Peter Connelly is killed by Tracey Connelly, Steven Barker and Jason Owen.
• September 12 - Joseph Estrada is found guilty of plunder and perjury and is sentenced to reclusión perpetua (life imprisonment).
• October 10 - SuccessTech Academy shooting
• November 7 - Pekka-Eric Auvinen commits the Jokela High School shooting in Tuusula, Finland, killing 8 poeple and injuring 13 others before committing suicide.
• December 27 - The Islamic Courts Union collapses. Militant Islamists that were members subsequently form Al-Shabaab and pledge allegiance to Al-Qaeda.

Births

Victim births

• January 2 - Braden Powell

Deaths

Villain deaths

• January 1 - Leonard Fraser
• January 15 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti
• January 22 - Elizaphan Ntakirutimana
• January 31 - Eli Stutzman
• February 14 - Salomon Morel
• April 16 - Seung-Hui Cho
• May 15 - Jerry Falwell
• May 28 - David Lane
• June 18 - Tyler Dumstorf
• June 24 - Chris Benoit
• August 27 - Bobbi Sue Dudley
• September 21 - Carl Eugene Watts
• October 2 - Vincent Otti
• October 10 - Asa Coon
• October 13 - Bob Denard
• November 7 - Pekka-Eric Auvinen
• November 20 - Ian Smith
• Unknown - Robert Kajuga

Victim deaths

• June 18 - Dep. Frank Dezinger, and Rep. Joel White
• June 24 - Nancy & Daniel Benoit
• July 23 - Gabriel Kuhn
• July 24 - Riley Ann Sawyers
• August 3 - Peter Connelly
• August 24 - Sophie Lancaster